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24 July 2021
Voice Verdicts: Dawn Butler and Jeff Bezos
A new series that issues judgements against the best and worst of our society from the week’s news.
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23 July 2021
Netflix to add mobile gaming for subscribers
In what could be a landmark move in the streaming wars, Netflix announced the plans in a letter to investors, which will see the company bring mobile gaming to its subscribers at no additional cost.
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22 July 2021
Parliament appeals for reforms to streaming service payouts
An investigation published by MPs addresses the problematic business practice of music streaming platforms.
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21 July 2021
Disney: the greediest place on Earth
Is Disney exploiting fans of Marvel by continuously churning out films and making them pay subscriptions to watch?
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21 July 2021
Digital exhibitions: the future of art events?
How does technology impact how we interact with the world of art?
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21 July 2021
Tencent to purchase Sumo Group for more than £900 million
The Chinese tech conglomerate’s offer to purchase the British video game developer values the company at £913 million, with Tencent already owning Riot Games (League of Legends) and holding a large stake in Epic Games (Fortnite).
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16 July 2021
Google fined €500 million by French competition authority
The Autorité de la concurrence accused the tech firm of refusing to seriously follow a mandate to negotiate with news organisations over the use of their content and material, and could lead to additional fines of €900,000 per day for Google.
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16 July 2021
Youth Card launched by leading social mobility charities
Speakers for Schools, UK Youth and Young Enterprise have combined to create the free app which will provide young people with a variety of career development opportunities as well as numerous discounts at different retailers.
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16 July 2021
Review: New Coal by Stacie Woolsey
Reviewing Stacie Woolsey's three-part narrative, based on a fictional industrial revolution after creating the strong, malleable and corrosion-resistant material of graphene in the north of England.
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13 July 2021
NFT: 3 Pros and Cons
NFT have been popular in recent months, but with anything new, it can start off rocky. I've boiled down my research into 3 Pros and Cons to spark debate and collect others views on the subject.
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9 July 2021
Nintendo announce new Switch OLED model
The new Switch model will launch on 8 October 2021 and sees incremental improvements over its predecessor rather than an overhaul. New changes include a larger OLED screen, 64 GB of storage and an in-built LAN port for wired online gaming.
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9 July 2021
Audacity denies accusations of being 'potential spyware'
The claims, which were made by the technology website Fosspost, have been denied by the audio-editing software, which was acquired this year by the Cyprus-based firm Muse Group.
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9 July 2021
How to Play Minecraft - a review by Mirel
This is my review of Minecraft and how to play it.
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7 July 2021
New political debating app, Polemix Review
No more leaving politics at the door. Instead, political debating done right.
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7 July 2021
Interview with founders of new debating app, Polemix
“The app’s vision is to break echo chambers, making sure users always listen to both sides of polarising questions.”
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5 July 2021
Interview with the co-founders of London Performance Studios
We speak to Lise Bell, former Exec Director at the Gate Theatre in Notting Hill, and visual artist Than Hussein Clark about the new spaces and wraparound support they are making available to artists as we look towards a post-recovery creative sector.
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2 July 2021
Pinterest becomes first platform to ban weight loss advertisements
The social media company, which revolves around the sharing of content through images and animated GIFs, announced a ban on all advertisements that promote weight loss through their language or imagery.
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2 July 2021
TikTok to increase video length cap to three minutes
The change was announced in a blog post by Product Manager Drew Kirchhoff, and will be made available for all users of the video sharing app over ‘the coming weeks’.